The Democrat Party, which has been lurching further and further left in recent years, may have made the final switch and become the Socialist Democrat Party.
From Craig McCarthy, Matt Troutman and Marie Pohl’s article for the New York Post:
The Zo-mentum is real.
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s far-left slate of Big Apple congressional hopefuls prevailed in Tuesday’s Democratic primary — with firebrand Darializa Avila Chevalier projected to pull off an AOC-style upset.
Former city Comptroller Brad Lander and state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez were quickly projected by the Associated Press and NY1 to win over their establishment Democrat opponents.
Avila Chevalier held a razor-thin 49.3% to 46% lead over Rep. Adriano Espaillat with 86% of votes counted late Tuesday, leading the five-term incumbent to concede.
Mamdani endorsed Avila Chevalier, Lander and Valdez with the explicit promise that the lefty candidates would advance his “affordability agenda” in DC.
Just two members of Congress — Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) — are DSA members. The primary victories by Avila Chevalier and Valdez, in the Seventh House District, put two more closer to Congress — a fact not lost on supporters.
“DSA! DSA!” chants erupted at Valdez’s victory party in East Williamsburg.
The candidates hold a slew of far-left views that were once fringe within the Democratic Party.
I wish I could tell you that this is just a one-and-off anomaly; that it is not reflective of where the Democrat Party is heading.
But I can’t. Because it is not. This is where the Democrat Party is heading.
And the fact that these wins by socialist Democrats were all in hardline Democrat districts, virtually assuring that they will wind up winning their elections in November and going to congress, is going to force the dwindling number of moderate Democrats to consider some hard decisions. Will they move along with the trend of their party? Will they leave the Democrat Party either to form some kind of independent entity, maybe a third party, or become Republicans?
Regardless of what happens in the future, however, this is where we are now. This is not – repeat, not – the Democrat Party of just a few years ago. More and more, it is becoming the “promise them free stuff/tell them you’ll get it from those rich bastards who earn a lot of money because it is your “fair share” party. That and “screw Israel”, let’s not forget.
What does this mean for the United States? Does a Socialist Democrat Party wind up becoming a force in a few major cities, but anathema to the rest of the country? Or is socialism – which has failed everywhere else it has been tried – going to be our country’s destiny?
I shudder to think of the possibility.
